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Plot Synopsis: After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes.
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Casino Royale (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray)
- Casino Royale (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray)
Title: | Casino Royale |
Original: | Casino Royale (USA / Velká Británie / Česko / Německo, 2006) |
Catalogue no.: | 1024112 |
Format: | 4K Ultra HD |
Category: | Action, Thriller, , 4K Ultra HD movies |
Availab. from: | 25. 11. 2020 |
Availability: | in stockWhen I get the goods? |
Price: | 809 CZK(32,11 €) (including VAT 21%) |
Retail price: | 899 CZK(35,69 €) |
Save: | 90 CZK(3,57 €) |
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Subtitles: | english, czech |
Length: | 144 minut |
Cast: | Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, and more > Simon Abkarian, Isaach De Bankolé, Jesper Christensen, Ivana Milicevic, Claudio Santamaria, Sebastien Foucan, Ludger Pistor, Lazar Ristovski, Mirosla |
Directed: | Martin Campbell |
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James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. But if Bond defeats Le Chiffre, will he and Vesper Lynd remain safe?
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Casino Royale
The movie begins in the city of Prague, Czech Republic, where James Bond has tracked down an MI6 section chief, Dryden, who was selling information to enemies for profit. They chat about what it takes to be a Double O agent (one of the requirements is making two kills) and Bond casually tells Dryden that his espionage contact, Fisher died, and 'Not well.' Intercut with the conversation are black and white scenes of Bond and Dryden's contact fighting in a men's room. Bond finally pushes the man's face into an overflowing sink and holds him there until he falls to the floor, apparently dead.
Dryden points a gun at Bond. 'Shame. We barely got to know each other.' He pulls the trigger, but James has removed the ammunition from the weapon. 'I know where you keep your gun. I suppose that's something.' Dryden continues to taunt Bond, asking him if he felt any remorse or guilt over killing Fisher. Bond remains passive, his face expressionless. Dryden says that Bond 'needn't worry, the second is--' at which point Bond kills Dryden. Bond puts his pistol away saying, 'Yes, considerably.' (Though not said explicitly, Bond found the killing of Dryden, his second such kill, 'considerably' easier than the first.) In flashback, Fisher recovers from Bond's attempt to drown him and picks up his pistol. The frame instantly shifts to the series' iconic 'gun barrel' sequence as Bond spins around and shoots the man. Blood runs down the frame, prompting the opening titles.
The scene shifts to Uganda where a terrorist group is meeting with 'Le Chiffre', a private banker to terrorist groups around the world. The broker for the deal is a Mr. White, who invests their money and manipulates stocks so they get a 100% return on the investment. The terrorists, lead by a man named Obanno, agree to allow the money to be taken for Le Chiffre's nefarious purposes.
In Madagascar, Bond, on his first mission as a '00', is working with another agent, Carter, monitoring a terrorist, Mollaka, who is gambling on a match between a cobra and a mongoose. Bond's inexperienced partner agent is exposed after Mollaka gets a cell call and the terrorist bolts from the scene. Bond chases the man, who is an experienced 'free runner' (parkour) who leads Bond through a construction site, onto several sky cranes and finally to the Nambutu embassy where he seeks asylum. Bond charges into the embassy, in direct contravention of international law and his orders, and catches Mollaka. Bond fights his way thru the halls of the embassy and finally finds himself surrounded by armed guards. The ambassador appears and orders Bond to let Mollaka go. Bond shoots the terrorist and a nearby gas tank and escapes in the explosion. He also steals the backpack Mollaka was carrying. Searching through the backpack, he finds a cell phone and a bomb. Bond examines the man's messages briefly, seeing one with an American phone number and the word 'ellipsis.' Bond keeps the phone.
Back at MI6, M is furious that 007's violent actions were caught on tape at the Nambutu embassy. Bond later sneaks into M's home and hacks her top-level clearance so he can trace where the cell phone call originated from. When M enters she's startled and lectures him on proper protocol and conduct. She thought it was a mistake to give him 00 status. Bond assures her that 'the life expectancy of a 00 is brief, so your mistake will be short-lived.' M tells him that 'arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand-in-hand' and she wanted him to take his ego out of the equation when on a mission. She also tells him to go on a brief vacation until she can decide how best to deal with him. Bond had discovered that the call to Mollaka originated in the Bahamas and so Bond goes there to investigate who made the call and why. He ends up finding a middle man, Dmitrios, who was working for Le Chiffre and that he was hired to find someone who could carry out a task for Le Chiffre. Bond meets Dmitrios and plays poker with him, winning his 1964 Aston Martin.
Bond uses the Aston to finagle a romantic evening with Dmitrios' spurned wife, Solange, to get information about her husband. She tells Bond that Dmitrios is going to Miami. Bond follows him there where he confronts Dmitrios, after seeing him put a bag away for someone to pick up later. Bond kills Dmitrios when he's held at knifepoint, however, the bag goes missing and Bond follows the man, Carlos, hired for Mollaka's job. Bond follows Carlos to Miami International Airport, where he pulls a security uniform out of the bag and puts it on. He slips into the secured area of the airport and Bond follows him, having figured out 'ellipsis' was the security code to get through the door. M calls Bond to tell him Le Chiffre will have Carlos destroy the prototype for a large airline named Skyfleet. The prototype is the largest passenger aircraft in the world and destroying it will bankrupt Skyfleet. Carlos sets off the emergency sprinkler system in the building to cause a diversion and slips out onto the tarmac. Carlos attaches an explosive charge to a refueling tanker and starts driving it towards the plane. However, Bond manages to leap onto the tanker. The two have a vicious fight all the way around the runways while being chased by the Miami-Dade Police. Eventually, Carlos leaps off the truck, and Bond is barely able to stop the tanker from hitting the plane. Carlos smiles as Bond is arrested and sets off the charge. However, Bond had discovered Carlos' small explosive device & attached it to Carlos' belt during the melee, and Carlos ends up killing himself.
Returning to Nassau, Bond discovers that Solange had been murdered. M explains she was tortured and killed by Le Chiffre because she was the only one left alive and he assumed she talked. Le Chiffre's plan was to 'short-sell' hundreds of millions of dollars in Skyfleet stock and, in destroying their prototype, cause their stock to plummet and send them into bankruptcy. Thanks to Bond, Le Chiffre loses over $101 million dollars. Now a marked man, Le Chiffre must find another way to earn the money back so his investors will not kill him. He sets up a high stakes poker match in Montenegro for 10 players with entry fees at $10 million each plus a $5 million buy-back should they lose all their money. M informs Bond of the poker game and agrees to let Bond continue the mission since he's the best poker player in the service. M also implants a homing device on 007 so she can track him anywhere.
The British Government will be putting up the money and we are introduced to Vesper Lynd who is the government agent who is going to monitor Bond and give a go, no-go should he lose the money. They talk on the train about each other, Vesper commenting on his cold nature and Bond remarking on how Vesper is retentive. Upon arriving they pose as a married couple and meet Rene Mathis, their contact in Montenegro. Each poker player has their money in a Swiss bank in escrow while they play and each one has a password to keep the money secured. Vesper has the account number but only 007 knows the password. On the first hand, 007 loses a chunk of cash to figure out how Le Chiffre bluffs (his physical 'tell' involves him placing his left hand near his wounded eye), however Vesper is not at all impressed, thinking Bond is inept. After a lengthy round of hands, a break is called. Bond places a tracking device in Le Chiffre's asthma inhaler and takes Vesper back to their room. Le Chiffre is called back to his room by his girlfriend, Valenka. However, he was confronted by Obanno and his henchman, demanding his money back. They threaten to cut off Valenka's arm, however, Le Chiffre doesn't acquiesce. Out in the hallway, Bond hears Valenka screaming. He quickly grabs Vesper and they kiss in the stairway entrance to cover themselves. Obanno's henchman notices Bond's earpiece and attacks them both. The fight takes them into the stairwell, where the henchman gets thrown off the stairwell to his death, and James and Obanno have a knock-down drag-out fight all the way down the stairwell. Finally landing on the bottom, Bond gets Obanno into a choke hold. Obanno tries to reach for Bond's gun, but Vesper smashes it out of his hands. Bond kills Obanno and orders Vesper to contact Mathis, who sets up a man to take the fall for the dead bodies by placing them in the man's car trunk. Bond finishes the poker session, but he returns to the room to find Vesper shaking uncontrollably in the shower from the fight. He holds on to her and comforts her.
The next day, during the continuing poker game, Bond loses all his money to Le Chiffre after misreading a bluff and admits to Vesper that he made a mistake. Vesper won't give him the buy back money saying he's going to lose it. Furious, 007 goes after Le Chiffre but is stopped by one of the other poker players, Felix Leiter, an agent sent by the CIA to the poker match to catch Le Chiffre. Leiter tells 007 that he's doing poorly himself in the game and that he'll back Bond to re-enter the game; Leiter believes that Bond can beat Le Chiffre. In return, Bond will give Le Chiffre to the CIA. Bond slowly builds his bank again and once again becomes a threat to Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre has Valenka poison Bond's martini with digitalis, causing Bond to suffer severe tachycardia. Bond goes to his car distressed and, communicating with medical specialists at MI6 headquarters, is about to use the defibrillator when he sees the the connection isn't plugged in and passes out. Vesper arrives, fixes the defibrillator kit and shocks him back to life. Bond, shaken, returns to the game. The final hand of the game is down to four players, including Bond and Le Chiffre, who go 'all in', betting their remaining money, driving the 'pot' well over $120 million. One man has a flush, while another has a full house. Le Chiffre has a higher full house and is about to take the entire pot. Bond reveals he has a straight flush and wins the game.
Bond has dinner with Vesper, who receives a call from Mathis stating that Le Chiffre has been apprehended by the CIA. Vesper leaves the dining room; seconds later, Bond realizes she's in danger. Vesper is kidnapped by Le Chiffre. Bond races after them in his Aston Martin, but has to swerve violently when he sees Vesper lying bound in the road. The car rolls several times, destroying it and injuring Bond, rendering him unconscious. Le Chiffre and his cronies take him, remove his homing implant. As Bond fades from consciousness, Le Chiffre tells him that Mathis was allied with his enemy. Bond and Vesper are taken to a nearby tramp steamer and separated. Bond is stripped and bound to a chair with the seat removed, leaving his testicles exposed. Le Chiffre uses a large knotted rope, striking Bond's scrotum, demanding the password for the account the winnings have been secured in. Bond refuses, despite Le Chiffre's threats to kill him and Vesper. Through the pain inflicted on him, Bond tells Le Chiffre that his investors, who are already hunting him, will find him and kill him. Le Chiffre finally draws a knife and is about to castrate Bond when gunshots are heard outside. The door opens and Mr. White, the broker from the first scene with Obanno, walks in, pointing a pistol directly at Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre, suddenly frightened, pleads with him, saying he'll secure the money, to which White replies, 'Money isn't as important to our organization as knowing who to trust.' White shoots Le Chiffre in the forehead, killing him.
Bond wakes up in a hospital bed during a haze while he recovers. He talks to Mathis, whom he believes was responsible for his and Vesper's capture by Le Chiffre. MI6 agents appear, taze Mathis and drag him away.
Vesper visits Bond and they confess their love for each other. The two make love. The Swiss banker in charge of the winnings account visits and Bond gives Vesper the password to key in; the password is her own first name. Bond resigns from the service to go away with Vesper, and they sail to Venice, Italy where Vesper says she'll get the money and Bond will get the supplies for the trip. When M phones 007 about his resignation, she says that they'll discuss that later but they need to talk about the money being returned to the British government first, which tips off 007 that Vesper was using him all along. 007 follows Vesper to a secret meeting where she turns the money over, in cash, to a man named Gettler. Gettler and a few of his men retreat to a building being renovated and a gunfight ensues. Bond shoots and ruptures the flotation bags that hold the building above water-level and fights with them all, killing them. He tries to save Vesper, locked in an old elevator, but is unable to after she commits suicide by drowning herself. Bond recovers her body and takes her above water but is unable to revive her. Mr. White, who'd been watching the scene, is seen leaving with the suitcase full of money.
Sitting on the sailboat he and Vesper had been vacationing on, Bond talks to M, who informs him that Vesper had a boyfriend who was being held by Le Chiffre's organization. She had intended to pay off Le Chiffre's associates with the money to secure her boyfriend's release. M believes that there are no further leads, that the 'trail has gone cold.' Bond examines Vesper's cell phone and finds the phone number of Mr. White, which he theorized she left for him purposely. At Lake Como in Northern Italy, White arrives at a palatial estate. After he exits his car, he receives a phone call from someone telling him they 'need to talk.' Asking who the caller is, White is suddenly shot in the leg by a sniper. He falls to the ground and crawls toward the house. As he tries to climb the stairs and the familiar Bond theme music begins to play, Bond appears carrying a cell phone and an HK rifle. As White looks up defiantly, Bond says 'The name's Bond. James Bond.' The closing titles roll immediately.
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Daniel Craig became the sixth actor to portray James Bond in the celebrated Eon film series with the 2006 release of Casino Royale. Craig's performance presented a darker and more human portrayal of Bond, very much in the same manner thatTimothy Dalton had pioneered in his two Bond films almost 20 years earlier. Dalton himself went on to praise both the film and Craig's performance, saying he was delighted for him .
Whilst Casino Royale went on to be a huge success with critics and audiences alike, the film was beset by censorship problems in many territories across the world, with at least five different cuts of the film being released in various countriesaround the globe. For instance, Chinese audiences had some luck in that Casino Royale was the first James Bond film to ever be officially released in China, although the Chinese censors did cut the film and demanded that a line mentioning the Cold War beredubbed to instead make a vague reference to the old times. As another example, the German release was practically uncut, but one small change was made to an undetailed neck break to secure an FSK-12 rating. Other countries got an uncut version,whilst the United States and the United Kingdom got two entirely separate cut versions.
In this edition of Cutting Edge, we'll be primarily focusing on the changes that were made to director Martin Campbell's original uncut version for boththe UK and US releases of the film, and the results say a lot about the different attitudes taken by the two different censor boards on both sides of the Atlantic.
Seeking BBFC advice on torture
After production wrapped in 2006, director Martin Campbell was in the process of editing Casino Royale in England and an unfinished rough cutof the film was submitted to the BBFC by the film's distributors, Sony Pictures, for advice on how to achieve a 12A rating for the final UK release. Although the film has some particularly violent scenes, the BBFC took issue with only one part of thefilm - the torture of James Bond by the film's chief villain, Le Chiffre. This important sequence (in both Ian Fleming's novel and the film itself) sees Le Chiffre repeatedly beating Bond in his testicles with a knotted rope; although in the novel acarpet beater is used. The BBFC declared that the film's torture scene contained too much emphasis on both the infliction of pain and the sadism of the villain and later commented:
Casino Royale sat on theborderline between '12A' and '15' when first seen in unfinished form. The BBFC advised the distributor that the violence would need to be toned down if the desired '12A' category was to be achieved. The version submitted for formal classification [was]appropriately placed at the upper end of '12A'... where the [BBFC] Guidelines permit violence provided there is no dwelling on detail or emphasis on injuries.
Minor changes were suggested to the filmmakers following the adviceviewing, including:
...the removal of lingering shots of the rope, close shots of Bond's facial reaction and the substitution of a more distant shot of the beating.
Submission to the BBFC
Cut Scenes: Ballsy Resistance The first -- and most obvious -- elimination in the UK version occurs as Le Chiffre approaches the naked and bound Bond with the rope. Le Chiffre speaks to Bond, remarking, You'vetaken good care of your body. As Le Chiffre encircles Bond, he pauses to drape the end of the rope over Bond's shoulder, saying, Such a waste. The rope is then removed and Le Chiffre walks to Bond's side.
The shots showing the draping and removing of the rope and Le Chiffre's second line were removed entirely. In an interview with James Bond fan site MI6 in 2006, director Martin Campbell remarked that the BBFC's issue with this particular shot was thatit was a little too sexual for their tastes.
Immediately afterwards, Le Chiffre begins to slowly swing the rope towards Bond's genitals. A shot from underneath the chair showing the rope swinging two times was reduced to just one swing for the UK version.
Le Chiffre's second strike with the rope is covered in two shots in the uncut version - a two-shot of Bond and Le Chiffre as the latter whips Bond with the rope; a close-up of Bond's grimacing face as he cries out in pain; and a return to the previoustwo-shot as Le Chiffre walks away. For the UK version, the close-up of Bond's face was removed, and the two-shot held for the entirety of the second whipping with no cutaway. Campbell appears to have incorporated the last BBFC change -- the substitution of a more distant shot of the beating - into his final edit of the film. When Bond is struck for the third time, the scene quickly cuts away to a long shot of Bond screaming from behind.
This shot exists in the uncut version too, and could possibly suggest that Campbell agreed with the BBFC's assessment and saw fit to remove the original offending footage in all versions of the film. |
Following a formal submission of Casino Royale to the BBFC, it was passed without further cuts with a 12A rating on October 30th 2006. After suffering numerous BBFC cuts to his 1995 Bond film, GoldenEye, Martin Campbell was surprised that suchminor changes were all that was required to Casino Royale:
In England, they didn't give a damn, and said that the violence is terrific. It was amazing to me that they let as much through as they did.
On the other hand, the reaction from the British cinema-going public was not quite so terrific. As the BBFC later stated in their Annual Report:
Any one of our decisions may be controversial or at least subject tochallenge and criticism. For example, were we right to make Casino Royale '12A', despite some scenes of violence and torture?
[It] was the most complained about film in 2006. The majority were about the level of violence in thefilm, commenting that it should have been a '15'. It was felt by some [that] the torture scene was still considered very strong despite being reduced.
The pre-cut UK cinema version was later passed with a 12 rating by the BBFC in February 2007 and releasedon DVD and Blu-ray.
No problems with torture in the US... but the MPAA required cuts to fight scenes
Martin Campbell submitted the uncut version of the film to the MPAA in the United States, with Sony Pictures keen to secure a PG-13 rating. In anunexpected move, the MPAA - usually more lenient on violence in action films than the BBFC - stated that cuts would be required in two of the film's major fight scenes before a rating would be awarded. As it stood, the uncut version would receive an Rrating; a rating that Sony were not willing to accept. In an interview with M2E Pictures, Martin Campbell spoke about the American treatment of Casino Royale:
You have to have a PG-13 rating, you can't have a stifferone, otherwise you'll be in serious problems on Bond. So the point is it has to be a sort of general audience movie. In the States, we took out a tiny bit of violence at the beginning of the movie, and a little bit in the machete fight. Oddly enough theAmericans let the torture scene go through without a cut.
Cut Scenes: That sinking feeling Through the use of numerous techniques including small snips, the shifting of edit points and alternative footage, Campbell re-edited the film's opening bathroom fight and the laterstairwell fight to secure a PG-13 rating in the United States. The bathroom fight cuts are as follows:
Martin Campbell had intended this scene to be ugly and brutal; Bond is earning his stripes as a new Double-0 agent and in the novel Ian Fleming makes it quite clear that Bond has trouble dealing with such violence in his profession. Campbell'sintended effect is somewhat diluted due to the MPAA's changes. |
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Cut Scenes: Stairway to Heaven The stairwell fight later in the film is also heavily cut in the US version. The main changes are as follows:
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Following these alterations, the US version was passed with a PG-13 rating and this version was released on both DVD and Blu-ray.
International Versions
Unlikemany previous Bond films which have only ever been available with at least some censor cuts permanently incorporated into all final release prints, the uncut version of Casino Royale was actually released intact in many parts of the world - Australia,France, Holland, Hong Kong, Japan, Portugal, Scandinavia and Taiwan all received uncut DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film. The Russian DVD release was also uncut, although the Blu-ray contains the cut UK version with the shortened torture scene.
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Celebrating James Bond's 50th anniversary with an uncut release in the UK (but not the US)
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In 2012, Sony resubmitted Casino Royale to the BBFC for the film's Blu-ray release as part of JamesBond's 50th anniversary celebrations. They submitted the original uncut version of the film, which was passed by the Board on August 13th 2012 with a 15 rating, and all previous cuts were waived. The UK now has a fully uncut version of the film, withnone of the BBFC or MPAA edits. All of the fight scenes are intact, and the torture scene is uncut. However, the 12-rated DVD releases still contain the cut UK version.